Droky sent in a great DIY Game of Life Build that uses a PIC 12F683. There are lots of details and he also provides the board layout and the PIC code so you could make your own. The capacitive sensors are a nice touch, the board also looks very well done! Here is the English Google translated version. "As it did not have enough memory on the PIC, I
Scary Lady bought a skeleton and hooked up some pneumatics to it to bring it to life. She takes it to the next level by controlling it with a DMX system. That way she can control the lights, skeleton movement and music! I bet there will be some super scared kids in her yard this year.
Here is good way to recycle some of those old CD-ROM drives that you probably have laying around. Jason Dorie took inspiration from my Hard Drive Clock for his build. You can see the details in these three posts. CD-ROM Clock Part 1, CD-ROM Clock Part 2, CD-ROM Clock Part 3. “Basically I’m using the motor and CD holder from the drive, as well as most of the original
If you get a bit queasy when seeing someone swat a fly please skip to the next article. This microcontroller that has been mounted to the back of this beetle has the ability to drive him as he flies. I can just imagine the possibilities that will soon be reality. Take a few hundred of these with cameras on them, have some real time computers control them to snap
This is a cool work of art by Tod Kurt called the Crystal Monster. It shows off the power of 18 BLINKM MAXM that are neatly placed in the custom laser cut box. You probably remember some of the cool Roomba Hacking that Tod also does. "It’s made from over 400 sheets of laser-cut acrylic, more that 240 feet of LED tape (>2200 RGB LEDs!), and around 500 steel
Carl sent in this Spinning RGB LED Ball Display project that he did when he was only 16! The visual effects are fantastic. There are a few images of the actual system at the end of the video and it looks very well done. Hopefully we can get some more pictures of the system.
Syncin’ n’ Sprinkin’ from Pete Lewis on Vimeo. Pete Lewis from Spark Fun have built a cool Smart Lawn Sprinkler project that is designed to save water by only putting it where it can be used. It does this by varying the water pressure to restrict the distance that the sprinkler can spray. It is a crude method but works very well! A potentiometer is used to measure the
